15 Movies That Changed Film Industry Forever
7. Star Wars (1977)
The film indisputably raised the bar for special effects, from creative use of practical sets, to sci-fi storytelling.
Most of the visual effects used pioneering digital motion control photography developed by John Dykstra and his team, which created the illusion of size by employing small models and slowly moving cameras.
However, one of the movie’s major contributions to modern cinema is constantly being overlooked – the simple act of playing the credits at the end of the movie rather than at the beginning.
We all recognize the famous opening scene with the yellow letters in space introducing us to this sci-fi drama, before they scroll out completely into the unknown. Although the Director’s Guild initially dismissed this idea and ordered Lucas to display the credits at the beginning of the movie instead (as had been the tradition for decades), Lucas refused to yield and simply paid the required fine in order to see his idea on screen.
The determination yet again proved to be one of the best qualities one can show, as the famous yellow letters still float through the vastness of space, probably confusing the hell out of some alien species in some galaxy far, far away.
